Water-wheel.



H. GAMLEN.

WATER W-HEEL- APPLlCATION FILED JULY 11,1917.

' PatentedSept. 17, 1918.

INVENTOR .amzy Quinlan,

L I I TT RNEY' HARRY GAMLEN, 0F CHEMAINUS, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

WATER-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 17, 1918- Applicationfiled July 11, 1917. Serial No. 179,936.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY GAMLEN, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at Chemainus, in the Province of British Columbia andDominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements inWater-Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to water wheels and it consists in the novelfeatures hereinafter described and claimed.

.An object of the invention is to provide a runner for a Waterwheel-structure which includes buckets and wings assembled upon the diskof the runner ina manner to sufficiently use the force of the water topropel the runner.

With this object in view the runner includes a diskhaving spoon shapedbuckets mounted at the periphery thereof and blades mounted at itsopposite sides between the said. buckets. The outer and mner surfaces ofthe said blades converge toward each other and the inner edges of theblades are spaced from each other whereby thewater which is dischargedbetween the blades is directed into the buckets and operates the bot-'toms thereof in a manner to direct the force from the water toward thecentral portions of the buckets and hence utilize the same for thepurpose of turning the disk.

In the accompanying drawing 5 Figure 1 is a top plan view of the runnerof the water wheel;

Figs. 2 and 3 are detailed sectional views cut on lines 2-2 and 3-3respectively of Fig. 1.

The runner of the water wheel comprises disk lwhich may be closed at itsintermedi ate portion or provided with spokes asdesired. Spoon shapedbuckets 2 are mounted at the periphery of from each other. Wings 3 aremounted at the opposite sides of the disk 1 and between the buckets 2.The outer and inner surfaces of the wings 3 converge toward each otherand the smaller portions of the said wings are located directly in frontof the hollows in the buckets 2. The edges of the wings at the oppositesides of the disk 1 are spaced from each other and the forward edges ofthe wings 3 at the opposite sides of the disk 1 lie in lines whichinclose larger areasthan the areas inclosed by the edges of the hollowsin the spoon shaped buckets 2. Any

the disk 1 and are spaced suitable securing devices may be employed forattaching the buckets and wings to the disk or the said buckets and,wings may if desired be made integral with the disk.

Any suitable form of easing may be provided for inclosing the runner andwhen a jet of water is discharged against the buckets and the wings, thebuckets by reason of their peculiar configuration will cleave throughthe jet of water thus preventing back pressure or strain and when theyarrive in alinement with the path of movement of the jet of water thesaid wings will direct the jet.

into the central portions of the bottoms of the buckets and hencethebuckets are successively subjected to the major force of the streamof water and this force is transmitted through the disk to the shaftupon which it is mounted and consequently the maximum force of thestream of water which is discharged against the buckets and wings isutilized. I

From the foregoing description taken in conjunction with theaccompanying drawing, it will be seen that a Water wheel runner ofsimple and durable structure is provided and that the parts thereof areso an ranged as to obtain maximum efliciency from the stream of waterwhich is used for operating the runner.

Having described the invention what is claimed is 1. A water wheelrunner comprising a disk, spoon shaped buckets mounted at the peripherythereof, blades mounted upon the disk at the opposite tween the saidbuckets, said blades being the bottom of the bowl of the adjacent spoonshaped bucket.

In testimony w ereof I afiix my signature.

' HARRY GAMLEN.

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